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Today, Andrew Breitbart published some photographs of an event in March 2007 where Senator and candidate Barack Obama shared a stage with Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party. It may be difficult to appreciate now, but at the time of this event Senator Obama was still considered a long shot for the White House. Hillary was still ahead in the polls and, thanks to a call from Bill, [...]...

From the music vault of the New Black Panther Party, here is Philly NBPP leader King Samir Shabazz and his group Coup Da’Ta with ”Damn Rebels”: Catchy. I’m a warrior trained by Khallid Muhammad I’m a terrorist trained by Osama Bin Laden Demolitionist, breaking down the walls of the rotten Never hit and miss First time, take out your target This part is also nice (:55). Hittin back, bust a cops’ ass [...]...

Malik Zulu Shabazz, the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, released a statement today defending his organization and accusing conservatives of fomenting racism for electoral gain in the coming mid-term elections. Here is the closing portion of his statement (emphasis added): For the record, the New Black Panther party is not racist nor a hate group and has worked many years in the cities and counties of America [...]...

Yesterday Barack Obama did his best to denounce his (former) pastor’s inflammatory, hateful rhetoric while still admiring him and what he stands for. The votes are still out on how he did trying to walk that tight rope. But today brings another challenge in the form of the New Black Panther Party. Their website makes for interesting reading. The NBPP has an endorsement page on the Obama website, describing Obama [...]...

I thought having the Tea Party rally around Herman Cain and push him to the forefront of the GOP nomination might lead the media to finally admit that they’d misjudged the nature of the Party. It never occurred to me that, instead of an apology, we’d get a new flurry of despicable racial attacks. We’ve seen this before of course, most notably with Justice Thomas who has been called an [...]...

Kevin Bacon just got closer: It used to be that we were all just six degrees of separation apart – i.e. you could ‘connect’ anyone to anyone else via finding a friend who knew someone else, who knew someone else, and so on. But now research by Facebook has found that the gap between us all has shrunk – to as little as four people. The average person needs just [...]...

Over at Big Journalism, Andrew Breitbart points out the Washington Post’s late, late entry to the New Black Panther case. For months the old media guard has been unwilling to touch this even as the left (prominently in the form of Rachel Maddow) spun all attention to the story as an attempt to frighten white people. The story reads like a careful attempt to minimize the most significant facts of [...]...

From the Chicago Sun Times: On its face, it is difficult to see myself in the 99 percent these protesters claim to represent. They are mostly young, white college students, although a few middle-aged and senior citizens were in the mix. [...] But what really struck me was the small number of black and brown people among the marchers. I had to hunt for Brian Johnson, a 40-year-old African-American male [...]...

On July 14th I submitted a post to Big Journalism about Newsweek’s downplaying of the New Black Panther story. After some light editing it was posted early on the 15th (I posted a slightly different version here at VS later that afternoon). Big Journalism contributor John Nolte wrote a follow up which included some kind words for my original piece. I thanked him via Twitter and figured that was the [...]...

Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker points out the two degrees of separation linking Obama’s embrace of Derrick Bell at Harvard in 1992, and Bell’s statement in 1994 that “we should really appreciate” Khalid Muhammad, the founder of the New Black Panther Party. Bell’s praise came just one year after this now infamous speech from Muhammad:

While there may be just two degrees of separation between Obama and Muhammad, the story really comes full circle with the decision by the Obama Justice Department in 2009 to not pursue a voter intimidation case against the current leadership of the New Black Panther Party. To see how inter-connected these events really are, compare Muhammad’s comments in the video above to this new VS video featuring Philadelphia Black Panther leader King Samir Shabazz, recorded earlier this year.

I frankly still find it stunning that even the Obama Administration would not pursue a conviction against Shabazz and the New Black Panther Party leadership, for whatever charge might be available to them. This organization is clearly dangerous: it’s only a matter of time before someone is inspired to act on this rhetoric, if it hasn’t happened already.

This is the real danger of imparting legitimacy to the ideas advanced by Critical Race theorists. That racism is a permanent feature of American society, that there is no solution within the law that will ever make a difference. If you really believed this, why wouldn’t you look at those calling for violent revolution as rational actors driven by despair? At a minimum you would probably have more than a little empathy for them. Heck, you might even let them walk away from a conviction they did not even bother to contest.